William GATEWOOD C.S.A.

1838 - ____

ID Number: I62571

Notes

"*William Gatewood-[File card # 529] enlisted as a private
soldier on June 1, 1862 in White County, Tennessee by Capt.
Bledsoe for the war.
Muster roll-May 28, 1863 Present
Last paid on December 31, 1862 by Capt. Sharp
Pay for use and risk of horse to May 1, 1863
Muster roll-June 30, 1863 Present
Last paid on April 30, 1863 by Capt. Sharp"

Notes

"Roy Bird Cook, in The Family and Early Life of Stonewall
Jackson (published in 1967 by the Education Foundation, Inc., of
Charleston, West Virginia), names Scots-Irish emigrant John
Jackson, born in Coleraine, Ireland, about 1715, as the
great-grandfather of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
After arriving in America, John Jackson married Elizabeth
Cummins in 1755 in Cecil County, Maryland. Their son, Edward
Jackson (1759-1828) first married Mary Hadden, by whom he
fathered Jonathan Jackson, the Confederate general's father.
This data is heavily repeated in Harry L. Jackson's Some
Descendants of John and Elizabeth Cummins Jackson: Kentucky
Relatives of Stonewall Jackson (published by the author in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1976). The bulk of the 154 page book,
however, traces the author's direct descent from John Jackson,
Jr. (1760-1821), who married twice: first to Rebecca Hadden and
second to Elizabeth Cozad. Though printed separately, the book
includes a beautiful, full-color 12 generation lineage chart
depicting the author's ancestry from Anthony Jackson, born in
1546, who married Margaret Frobisher. Least satisfactory in this
genealogy—both the book and the chart—is President Andrew
Jackson's questionable connection to this family. Old Hickory's
grandfather is identified as Dr. Joseph Jackson, brother to John
Jackson the immigrant. President Jackson's ancestry is sketchy
at best, but according to Ellis Munson Goodwin's "Crafford of
New River, North Carolina," in the National Genealogical Society
Quarterly, Vol. 57, pp. 298-303, his grandfather was not Dr.
Joseph Jackson, but one Hugh Jackson. Nothing is known of Andrew
Jackson's direct paternal line beyond his great-grandfather,
Thomas Jackson, a resident of County Down, Ireland. The most
glaring error in Harry L. Jackson's genealogy is the three years
age difference between Dr. Joseph Jackson (1690) and Andrew
Jackson, Sr. (1693), the men identified as father and son. The
birth dates appear in both the book and the chart. Descendants
of John and Elizabeth Cummins Jackson is accessible at the
Family History Library in Salt Lake City (the call number is
929.273 J135) or through microfilm loan at the area Family
History Centers (film number 1421669, item 8).

Cook's The Family and Early Life of Stonewall Jackson also
traces the ancestry of the Confederate general's mother, Julia
Beckwith Neale, born in 1798 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Surnames in the Neale lineage include Rodham, Presley,
Fauntelroy, and Underwood."

Notes

In 1710, James Bowles, son of a wealthy London tobacco merchant
and member of Maryland's Lower House of the Assembly, purchased
an 890 acre tract that would become Sotterley Plantation. In
1717, he began building his house which today stands as an
unique record of a method of construction called post-in-ground
architecture, once common in the Tidewater regions.

Two years after the death of Squire Bowles in 1727, his young
widow, Rebecca, married George Plater II. Over the years, the
Plater family converted the simple residence into a charming
18th-century manor house, which they named after their ancestral
home, Sotterley Hall, in Suffolk, England. It was under George
Plater III, sixth governor of Maryland, that the house reached
its distinctive form which was much admired by George
Washington, and perhaps served as a model for Mount Vernon. The
Chinese Chippendale staircase and the shell alcoves in the
drawing room, both carved by Richard Boulton, then an indentured
servant, are considered among the finest examples of
18th-century American woodwork.
Children:
i. Rebecca Plater, b. 8 Aug 1731; m. John Tayloe II.
ii. Anne Plater; b. 31 Oct 1732.
iii. Gov. George Plater; b. "11-8-1735" at Annapolis, MD; m.
Hannah Lee, daughter of Hon. Richard Lee and Grace Ashton, 5 Dec
1762 at Charles Co., MD; 1st wife; m. Elizabeth Rousby, daughter
of John Rousby, 19 Jul 1764; 2nd wife; d. 10 Feb 1792 at
Annapolis, MD. He was Governor of Maryland. He
resided at St. Mary's Co., MD.
iv. Thomas Addison Plater; b. 27 Oct 1738.
v. Elizabeth Plater; b. 7 Aug 1742. Elizabeth married Capt. John
Carpenter; 1st husband. She died on 30 Oct 1750.
http://www.sotterley.com/history.htm.